WAUKESHA  , a

city and the county-seat of Waukesha county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., about 19 M . W. of Milwaukee on the Little Fox river . Pop . (1890) 6321; (1900) 7419, including 1408 foreign-born; (1905 state census) 6049; (1910) 8740 . Waukesha is served by the Minneapolis, St Paul & Sault Ste Marie, the Chicago & North-Western and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railways, and by interurban electric railways connecting it with Milwaukee, Oconomowoc and Madison . The medicinal mineral springs (Bethesda, White Rock, &c.) are widely known . Among the public buildings are the county court house and the public library . Waukesha is the seat of the State Industrial School for Boys (established as a house of refuge in 186o) and of Carroll College (Presbyterian, co-educational, 1846) . Waukesha was first settled in 1834, was named Prairieville in 1839, was incorporated as a village under its present name (said to be a Pottawatomi word meaning " fox ") in 1852, and chartered as a city in 1896 . In 1851 the first railway in the state was completed between Milwaukee and Waukesha, but the village remained only a farming community until the exploitation of the mineral springs was begun about 1868 . About 15 M . S. of Waukesha, near Mukwonago (pop. in 1gio, 615), in 1844—1845, there was an unsuccessful communistic agricultural settlement, the Utilitarian Association, composed largely of London mechanics led by Campbell Smith, a London bookbinder .